Philosophers are the monks of Academia; Proverbs 28:6,27
Thank goodness the blogging marathon is almost over! I’m gonna go nuts over this! Haha.
I was thinking of what to say here - I think it’s just another pessimistic comment about the state of philosophy today. Basically, philosophy today is something made by and for philosophers. Now that I start to write, this sounds awfully familiar. Sorry if I’m being repetitive with this, but it’s gonna be a short entry, so no excuses! 
Ok, back to the point. Philosophy is by and for philosophers. There is little, if no, interested in non-philosophers. It is the epitome of what it means to live in the Ivory Tower and not associate with the rest of the world. In a very real sense, philosophers are the monks of academia. They have retreated from the world in order to learn Truth. It is assumed that the reason they don’t show interest in helping the rest of the world to this Truth is because they have not yet come up with a satisfactory answer of what Truth is (and do not want to deceive the masses and be held accountable for it), or possibly because they do not even believe the masses capable of coming to the Truth.
Philosophy is insufficient. There is something to be admired even in monks in a monastery, when on certain conditions they allow distraught total strangers into their ranks for a while. Or nuns who reach out to their community, such as the late great Mother Theresa. But there is no Mother Theresa of philosophy. The old philosophers, like Socrates, who lived and died for their philosophy, are gone now.
We find no groups of philosophers helping out with relief efforts, or helping kids in the inner city as the Christian Church and others do. How odd it would be to read in the newspaper something like “Epistemological Reliabilists Traver to Hurricane-Battered East Coast to Help With Hurricane Relief Efforts” (that would be one of the longest headlines anyhow, I guess). PLEASE, philosophers, PLEASE contribute to society or it is all for naught. PLEASE forego your burning desire to leave an impact on intellectual thought for years to come, and make a definite impact in a current need in society. Philosophers are called to be lovers of wisdom, and to WALK in wisdom. As someone on the newsgroups has recently said, show compassion first. Show interest in logic secondly.
I find philosophy very necessary, but in its present state totally insufficient. I don’t know if this is the way it should be or not, I’d just like to point it out…
“Better to be poor and walk in integrity
than to be crooked in one’s ways even though rich.”
Proverbs 28:6
“Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing,
but one who turns a blind eye will get many a curse.”
Proverbs 28:27